I need help

You want to know how to count calories when you work out, right? Counting calories is pretty simple for food and drinks, if you stay on it and be truthful. Working out, it depends. If you are at a gym, the equipment is sophisticated enough to track ht, wt, age, and heart rate. The faster your heart is beating, the more calories you burn because the more energy is needed to keep your body cool. If you are out on the country side, running 5 miles, you may want to get a pedometer, and research via the internet the amount of average calories burned for your weight class. Do not totally trust the amount on the website here, or any one specific website. It is different for everyone. I am a cyclist, and I have a cyclometer that measures calories. But It does not measure the weight of my bike, nor pedal speed or wind resistance. I could be gliding down a hill for 5 miles, and It would say I burned 170 calories, even though my feet werent moving at all. So, do your research, and push yourself. If you cant get a precise number, then estimate, but estimate lower. If you are wrong and counted less than you actually burned, what is the harm in that? But what if you overestimated calories burned?

The workout log will ask what you did. search the database, and click on the appropriate one. It will then give you a calorie counter. It is asking in MINUTES, not distance, how far you went. put that in. Be accurate----if you walked 40 minutes and ran 20 minutes, keep track of that. dont just say you ran for an hour. It will be inaccurate, and all your numbers will be off for the day. Ask around if the people that do activities where you have to manage the calories burned if the count is accurate by this site. The expert exercisers will chime in, and they are plentiful on here.

As far as food, just look at the nutrition facts, and measure measure measure! you dont want to say you used 2 tbsp of oil when you really used 6.5 (although you never really consume the whole amount you cook with). I wish you luck.....I am learning as I go, and am just pushing myself farther and farther. You do the same!

Hello
When I started here, I was lost too. Now, I just plan my meals. An hour at the gym is roughly500 cal for me. I log food every time I eat and at the end of the day, see what I have left. I log the dinner, if it s over, I change it for something else... when I know, I ll have a big meal, I either go the gym or plan around it to save calories... It gets trickier if you change your matrix. But the same principle applies. Plan your food and day :-)
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